IDM Press Flagship Book
Measuring Hidden Dimensions: The Art and Science of
Fully Engaging Adults
IDM Press, January 2006, by Otto Laske Ph.D.
Second Edition April 2011
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Volume 1 of Measuring Hidden Dimensions is a comprehensive textbook teaching assessment of the social-emotional dimension of adult development in the sense of R. Kegan, with a strong practical focus on evidence based coaching.
In the 5 years since its first appearance, many but not enough professionals have learned to use the tools it provides for evidence based work in their domain of expertise. Aware of the book’s importance in promoting social-emotional listening and thinking, but also for its relevance in researching the link between social-emotional and cognitive development (dealt with in volume 2, of 2009), we have taken great care, not only to correct errors and omissions, but also to make the book as a whole more accessible.
This we have done by way of detailing the list of contents and of expanding the glossary and index of the book. We have also converted some appendices to chapters in their own right, thereby highlighting psychoanalytical assessment provided by the Need/Press Questionnaire based on Henry Murray’s work.
On account of this, readers of Measuring Hidden Dimensions now have access to all three dimensions linked by the Constructive Developmental Framework (CDF): social-emotional, psychoanalytical, and cognitive, especially if they consult chapter 8 of volume 2 dealing with the difference between, and linkage of, meaning making and sense making.
In eleven "theory" chapters plus exercises, case studies, and an introduction to developmental team work and human resources management, the book gives the reader hands-on knowledge of how to integrate social-emotional insight from assessment into everyday practice.
One thing reading the book will not accomplish is to produce the hands-on knowledge needed to do social-emotional assessments. This can only be accomplished by using the book as a textbook in courses such as taught by assessment experts at IDM (Modules A and D), in which individual case studies are written through which students can prove their assessment expertise to themselves and others.
Measuring Hidden Dimensions: The Art and Science of Fully Engaging Adults is available in both soft cover bound format ($30.00) and e-book format ($20.00).
Table of Contents
Preface: Why this book and why now?
Introduction to Process Consultation
Chapter 1: You Already Know What Adult Development Is!
Chapter 2: What is Your Hypothesis as You Listen?
Chapter 3: Where is Your Client’s Center of Gravity?
Chapter 4: From Active to Hypothesis Based Listening
Chapter 5: How Spread Out between Risk and Potential is Your Client?: Making Finer Distinctions between Stages
Chapter 6: How to Understand Developmental Conflict
Chapter 7: The Structure of Powerful Conversations: How to Listen between the Lines
Chapter 8: How to Test Your Developmental Knowledge
Chapter 9: Developmental Foundations of Coaching
Chapter 10: Need/Press Analysis, Demonstrated in 3 Case Studies
Chapter 11: Developmental Issues of Team Dynamics and Capability Management
Appendix: A: Exercises
Appendix B: Answers to Selected Exercises
Appendix C: Table of Questions for Determining Social-Emotional Level
Appendix D: Social-Emotional Interview Coding Sheet
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Glossary of Terms
Selected Bibliography
Index
A short description of each chapter of Volume 1 and of its Appendices
The first three chapters introduce to adult-developmental stage theory based on R. Kegan’s work, with equal attention paid to listening and text analysis.
Chapter 4 is an analysis of “active listening” and is the basis of chapter 7, on developmental interviewing. In chapters 5 and 6, the framework of four “main” stages is further differentiated through an introduction of “intermediate” stages, thereby enabling the student to refine developmental diagnoses within a framework of 16 different stages.
The book’s teachings up to chapter 7 are put to the test in chapter 8 which presents a complete analysis of a three-page interview fragment, in order to exemplify the scoring of interviews in terms of developmental stage structure. Chapter 9, finally, is a theory of developmental coaching focused on the difference between behavioral and developmental coaching and, within the latter, the distinction between different developmental levels instantiated by coaches.
In chapter 10, psychoanalytical work place issues are discussed based on sample findings from the Need/Press Questionnaire. This then becomes the basis of a discussion of team dynamics and capability management in chapter 11. The appendices comprise exercises and tools useful for scoring transcriptions of social-emotional interviews at the highest possible level of inter-rater reliability. The latter chapters are most relevant to OD Consultants and Human Resources professionals.
In its entirety, Laske’s book reflects the state of the art of adult-developmental assessment in the early 21st century. It exemplifies Laske’s teaching at the Interdevelopmental Institute since 2001, and his concern for clearly distinguishing the social-emotional and cognitive lines of adult development in order to understand their linkage.
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